This could be used in lots of different ways. These three Apps allow you to enter text in to the App and then draw with it as seen in the examples below. The opportunities here are quite literally endless – all you need is your creativity in linking it to student work and learning. There is a free App for it too which can be found here. This example clearly isn’t linked to numeracy or literacy but serves as an example of some of the things that ThingLink can do. If you haven’t come across ThingLink before, it really is a fantastic tool particularly when it comes to making student work public incorporating all manner of different resources and elements of research.

Ok, so yes – these aren’t all going to be multi-platform Apps, but did you know that you can easily embed 2D, 3D and Interactive charts in to Keynote, Numbers and Pages? Check the screenshot below from within Keynote to view the options.

Thanks and kudos must go to Nina Jackson who shared many of the ideas below to help form this post. Below are a number of examples, ideas, apps and ways in which you could embed numeracy and / or literacy in to your learning. If it’s analysis of data through the creation of an infographic using Infogr.am or Piktochart (or examining an existing one) or something a bit more complicated like this by Mike Bostock which requires students to program a visual using code there are lots of ways in which we can embed numeracy in to visual work. We can embed learning linked to numeracy in lots of different ways. Carl Hendrick wrote recently about motivational posters recently here and I tend to agree when they’re used out of context, however I think visualisations can be a great learning tool, particularly when students make them themselves.

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